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China ‘will move clouds and make it rain in different places using satellites’ in terrifying weather control plan. Image: GETTY

Just weeks ago we reported that China will be launching an artificial moon into space using satellites to create illumination. The official story is that they’re hoping to launch the artificial moon into space in order to save money on street lighting and also increase tourism by brightening the streets.

Now we’re learning that Chinese scientists have come up with a bizarre plan to change the weather by using satellites to shift rainclouds. What is going on???

The November 5th deadline is looming, and it appears that all the analysts cheering an inevitable Trump “victory” on Iranian oil may have been a bit premature, just as they were premature when they assured everyone that the trade war against China would be easily won. These people are approaching this issue with a crippling bias (political bias), and they are not examining what is happening with clear vision.

The reality is that most of the world is beginning to decouple from the US, and this is EXACTLY what the globalists want at this time.

The goal?

To bring down the US economy and elevate a new globally centralized system while making it appear as though Trump (and by extension conservatives) are to blame for the entire catastrophe. Trump is making it so easy for them, it is hard to come to any conclusion besides the conclusion that he is working with them…

Shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump announced in May he would reimpose sanctions on Iran, the State Department began telling countries around the world the clock was ticking for them to cut oil purchases from the Islamic Republic to zero.

The strategy is meant to cripple Iran’s oil-dependent economy and force Tehran to quash not only its nuclear ambitions, but this time, its ballistic missile program and its influence in Syria.

With just days to go before renewed sanctions take effect Nov. 5, the reality is setting in: three of Iran’s top five customers – India, China, and Turkey – are resisting Washington’s call to end purchases outright, arguing there are not sufficient supplies worldwide to replace them, according to sources familiar with the matter.

That pressure, along with worries of a damaging oil price spike, is putting the Trump administration’s hard line to the test and raising the possibility of bilateral deals to allow some buying to continue, according to the sources.

Chinese President Xi Jinping told military officials responsible for the disputed South China Sea to be better “prepared for war” as tensions with the US are rising. Beijing may be bracing for a worst-case scenario with the US.

Xi made the blunt remarks last week as he was meeting the Southern Theatre Command, the military officials responsible for one of China’s five strategic war zones. The calls were made on Thursday as part of his four-day visit to Guangdong province, but the Chinese state media reported them only on Friday.

“It’s necessary to strengthen the mission… and concentrate preparations for fighting a war,” President Xi said. “We need to take all complex situations into consideration and make emergency plans accordingly.

We have to step up combat readiness exercises, joint exercises and confrontational exercises to enhance servicemen’s capabilities and preparation for war.

One of the key responsibilities of the Southern Theater Command is protecting China’s interests in the South China Sea, where Beijing claims sovereignty over a number of islands. The sea is of strategic importance to Chinese trade. The US rejects the territorial claims and has been sending so-called Freedom of Navigation missions through the waters and airspace, which Beijing considers its own, as a gesture of defiance.

Chief of US Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson said Tuesday the US and China “will meet each other more and more on the high seas” as the two nations confront each other in the South China Sea.

Xi’s remarks are a sign of irritation that the Chinese government has accumulated about the policies of the Donald Trump administration, believes Victor Gao, director of the China National Association of International Studies.

“The US has been pushing China around, humiliating China, imposing unilateral tariffs on Chinese exports, and also declaring China as its rival and a major threat to the US survival,” he told RT. “Xi is preparing for the worst scenario.”

Gao said Beijing is not certain about Washington’s policies vis a vis China, so the military will be right to “prepare for a final showdown with the United States.”Considering that both nations have nuclear weapons, an open war conflict may lead to an “Armageddon involving mankind as a whole,” he added.

The expert said it’s up to the US to abandon its “bullying tactics” towards China.

“China does not want to have a trade war with the US. China does not want to have an armed conflict with the US. But if the US really wants to impose these things on China, the Chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the Chinese government,” he explained.

The US is currently engaged in a full-blown trade war with China, which resulted in both sides imposing tariffs and other restrictions on each other’s products. Washington also recently cited a threat from Chinese missiles as a justification for abandoning a key nuclear arms treaty with Russia, further undermining the Cold War era non-proliferation mechanisms.

Amid the growing tension, Beijing has been injuring America’s position as the holder of the only world currency, selling out US treasury securities and switching out of dollar in its trade with third countries.

City of Chengdu unveils plans to replace streetlights with a satellite that boosts glow of real moon

The ‘official’ story is that if there’s an approval for the artificial moon, called an illumination satellite, they’re hoping to launch it into space in order to save money on street lighting and also increase tourism by illuminating the streets.

The satellite would be able to light an area with a diameter of 10 to 80 kilometers, while the precise illumination range can be controlled within a few dozen meters, according to the People’s Daily, which quoted a developer with the Chengdu Aerospace Science and Technology Microelectronics System Research Institute as saying.

The paper added that testing the illumination satellite started years ago and all the technology and design had been finalized.

The man-made moon has a highly reflective coating to reflect light from the sun with solar panel-like wings whose angles can be adjusted to realize “precise lighting.” The 14,300-square-meter city of Chengdu would be the primal focus of the light from the man-made moon, and astronomers throughout China and overseas should be able to spot the glowing star at night.

But no further specifications of the spacecraft, or its launch date, were available.

Chengdu officials expect the city to reel in more tourists when the artificial moon is up and shining.

A giant model of the moon on display during China’s Mid-Autumn Festival. Photo: China News Services

However, some have expressed concern that the light reflected from space could have adverse effects on the epigenetic clocks of the city’s residents.

Kang Weimin, the director of the Institute of Optics of the Harbin Institute of Technology, explained that light from the satellite could only be similar to a dusk-like hue, so it would never turn night into day.

The idea of an “artificial moon” came from a French artist, who imagined hanging a necklace made of mirrors above the earth, which could reflect sunshine through the streets of Paris all year round.

At the end of the 20th century, Russia aimed to mount a 25-meter space mirror on its now defunct Mir space station in a bid to banish night, but the program was called off after glitches.

Using a giant mirror to reflect the sun’s light to dark corners of the Earth did not work in February 1999, when the Mir crew was unable to unfold the umbrella-like mirror after it became caught up with one of the supply ship’s antennae.

The mirror was supposed to work like an artificial moon, according to a CNN report back then, reflecting sunlight onto several regions in Russia and other former Soviet republics before reaching Germany and the Czech Republic.

Had the day-long experiment gone smoothly and the sky been clear, there could have been a circle of light on the ground, measuring five to eight kilometers and moving at a speed of about seven meters a second.

The mirror’s designers had hoped it would serve as a prototype for much larger models that may be used to illuminate light-starved northern cities in Russia and Europe.

Such a mirror could illuminate construction sites, disaster areas or wherever else light would be needed, officials said. Designers said a series of mirrors or one giant mirror could harness the sun to overcome darkness and even help boost agriculture by lengthening the day.

ANTIMEDIA| — Apple has rolled out a new policy to analyze your data and determine a “trust score” based on what it finds, Venture Beatreported this week.

In an update to its privacy policy issued last week, the company warned users it would be tracking emails and calls in order to prevent fraud.

“To help identify and prevent fraud, information about how you use your device, including the approximate number of phone calls or emails you send and receive, will be used to compute a device trust score when you attempt a purchase,“ the text reads.

Venture Beat notes that this new text “appears in the iTunes Store & Privacy windows of iOS and tvOS devices,” observing that this is not a run-of-the-mill update:

“This provision is unusual for a few reasons, perhaps the least of which is that Apple TVs don’t make phone calls or send emails. As such, it’s unclear how Apple computes the device trust score for iTunes purchases made through Apple TVs, but there’s other potential ‘information about how you use your device’ that could be scraped and abstracted.”

The outlet continued:

“It’s equally unclear how recording and tracking the number of calls or emails traversing a user’s iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch would better enable Apple to verify a device’s identity than just checking its unique device identifier. Every one of these devices has both hardcoded serial numbers and advertising identifiers, while iPhones and cellular iPads also have SIM cards with other device-specific codes.”

In a statement to Venture Beat, Apple said: “[T]he only data it receives is the numeric score, which is computed on-device using the company’s standard privacy abstracting techniques, and retained only for a limited period, without any way to work backward from the score to user behavior.”

The company also said that “No calls, emails, or other abstractions of that data are shared with Apple.”

Apple has insisted it does not share private user data and has had a long, public battle with the FBI over its refusal to submit to demands they violate their encryption technology.

Nevertheless, some social media users compared the concept of a “trust score” to an episode of the dystopian Netflix show Black Mirror. That episode details a society where people rank each other, generating scores that affect their ability to buy homes, use transport, and even engage with other individuals.

This is dangerous. Anyone seen Black Mirror – Nosedive?
Apple will log about how many ‘phone calls or emails you send and receive’ to give your device a ‘trust score’ https://t.co/NH8YDiYdmW

I’m fucked!!!
Apple is quietly giving people ‘trust scores’ based on their iPhone data – iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV data is used to see how trustworthy you are, similar to a scenario in the dystopian series Black Mirror https://t.co/zscvOA1L8f

In real life, China has imposed a social credit score that has already restricted the ability of citizens to function, including banning travel. It can also be used to ban low-ranking people from using dating apps, attending schools, and luxury hotels.

While Apple’s new ranking system is far from anything that dystopian, its adoption is yet another sign of the ubiquitous technology and data analysis of consumers wielded by monolithic tech companies in modern life.

Editor’s Note: While the West is distracted by political uprisings and remains enamored with the idea of its own ‘making America great again’ mantra, a new world order is emerging, dominated by up-and-coming global superpowers like Russia, China and India. China’s New Silk Road (One Belt One Road) initiative is being strategically utilized to become the dominant economic world order and it’s beingled by Israel.

The New Silk Road, or One Belt One Road, Initiative Is Being Led By Israel Via China

Although no archaeological evidence has been found that supports the grandeur described in the biblical accounts of David and Solomon, it is claimed that King Solomon built Jerusalem up to be the trade capital of the world where West meets East. This may be why Emperor Titus (39-81 AD) said that the Jews in Jerusalem had become wealthier than the entire Roman empire [Josephus: The Wars of the Jews 6.6.2].

In 1581, German Protestant pastor, theologist and cartographer Heinrich Bunting depicted the world that he believed mattered as a cloverleaf, comprised of Europe, Asia and Africa converging in Jerusalem.

Israeli-American political scientist and senior editor of GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily Yossef Bodansky recently wrote that Bunting’s map is likely the best depiction of the unfolding global geopolitical architecture, which is the merging of the greater Middle East and the greater framework of the Mackinderian shift to a multipolar world order.

The cloverleaf world centered on Jerusalem is coming to fruition via Israel’s leading role in China’s New Silk Road initiative. China is the largest trading nation globally and 95% of global trade is by sea. China is very dependent on the Suez Canal to reach Europe, its largest export market, and it gets the majority of its crude oil from the Middle East. This is why China is building a “steel canal” of the Med-Red Railway through Israel to connect the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, which provides shipping route diversification to the Suez Canal.

“In the new and surprising economic world order, Israel could gain a degree of wealth not seen since the days of King Solomon.

For the Western world, strong new alliances between certain non-Western countries constitute something of a mystery. But while the West is distracted by political uprisings and remains enamored with the idea of its own “manifest destiny,” a new world order is emerging, dominated by up-and-coming global superpowers like Russia, China and India. …

Israel is positioned to guard the world’s Internet. Everything today is traded, controlled and administered online. And Israel is emerging as the world’s number one guardian of the worldwide web. That means, regardless of being a few miles offtrack from China’s Land and Maritime Roads, it is positioned to be the center of both belts.”

The creation of the Silk Road during China’s Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) had a tremendous impact on international trade and communication between eastern and western countries. During this golden age, various merchandise, including silk, spices, jewelry, and perfumes, was exchanged on the Silk Road. Having begun to settle alongside this mercantile set of roads, Jewish traders were at the forefront of such activity. http://www.israelandchina.com/#book

The Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)

For hundred of years, the Silk Road served as a link between East and West. Before the perfection of maritime navigational techniques, it was the primary route of trade between China and its eastern neighbors. Different routes of the Silk Road took goods and people from China to India, to Persia, to Arabia, and to the Mediterranean Coast, which then connected to Europe and Africa.

During the time of the Silk Road, many Jews become involved in international trade. In many ways, they were uniquely qualified for the profession. …

Bunting’s map and Israel on China’s new silk road | Heinrich Bunting was a German Protestant pastor, theologist and cartographer, and in his masterpiece Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel Through Holy Scripture) in 1581, he portrayed the world that mattered was comprised of the three continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa, with each depicted as a cloverleaf. They converged in Jerusalem, and the rest of the world was irrelevant. …

[T]his policy is based on the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), an initiative that has not been well received in the US, to the extent that Japan refrained from joining so as not to upset Washington. Israel, however, did join the AIIB, and must be careful not to conduct its business with China at the expense of the US or its relationship with Washington. – Jerusalem Post 2017 http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/One-Belt-One-Road-504129

[Via Bridget] “Oslo peace accords were not about peace (we all know that), it was about opening up trade with China” | China everywhere | China’s open door policy and the Oslo Peace Accords freed Beijing and Jerusalem to develop trade relations. Within a matter of decades, Chinese investment in Israel had increased substantially: in 1992, when full diplomatic relations were established, Chinese investments stood at US $50 million. By 2016, this figure had risen to US $16.5 billion.

Chinese investors have bought into the Israeli high-tech sector, formed joint ventures, hosted a trade conference and managed construction projects in Israel, including port and tunnel building. This trade relationship is likely to improve further, as Chinese investors adopt a cautious approach to investment in the United States due to President Trump’s anti-Chinese rhetoric.

Israeli politicians are very much in favour of improving relations with the East Asian power, as Israeli Economic Minister Eli Cohen said in September. Israeli companies also welcome Chinese investment, as there is concern that Trump’s tax reform would require Israeli start-ups to either register as US entities, or move some of their operations to the US in order to become eligible for tax rebates. https://www.aspi.org.au/opinion/china-everywhere

Two-Gun Cohen; Chinese Spy Master and a second Moishe! | Morris “Two-Gun” Cohen was the one and only Jewish Chinese General and, for a time, was head of the Chinese Secret Service! One of his colleagues was Dr. Moses Schwarzberg, a Russian Jew who helped save China http://www.jwmww2.org/userfiles/file/TwoGunCohen.pdf

THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN CHINA AND ZIONISM | Uri Dan, writing in the New York Post, March 30, 1997, reported that back in 1979 then-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin got U.S. approval for authorising Shaul Eisenberg to undertake a $10 billion 10-year deal to modernise the Chinese armed forces thereby “strengthening the counterbalance to Soviet military might.” Dan describes this deal as “one of the most important in Israeli history” and that “the Chinese insisted on absolute secrecy.” https://www.kerrybolton.com/the-alliance-between-china-and-zionism/

Americans need to wake up NOW!!!

We still have the power to stop this, all we have to do is not make life so easy for these corporations.

We’ve been sold the convenience factor and the “buy it cheaper” factor that has made us forget skills that we had just a generation ago and by buying cheaper from places like Walmart, we have allowed all these mom and pop small businesses to go bust and be shut down.

Those small businesses represent the majority of a healthy middle class. Without a middle class, there is no economy and this is called Neo-Feudalism.

The NWO is actually the actually the Old World Order of Neo-Feudalism. That’s our future if we don’t start taking action.

This is your children and children’s children future, America!

Watch this video it’s less than 14 minutes. Get educated on what’s coming.

In what Reuters has dubbed a massive “show of force“, dozens of Chinese warships have been observed on satellite imagery, exercising with an aircraft carrier and warplanes above the heavily-disputed South China Sea, as part of the previously noted massive military drills, which the PLA ominously said were “in preparation for war.”

The four images, provided by Planet Labs for Reuters confirms the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning joined the annual naval war drill earlier this week.

According to the Taiwan Defense & National Security ministry, late last week Taiwan sent two ships and military aircraft to shadow the Chinese aircraft carrier group through the narrow Taiwan Strait.

The images, taken on Monday by Planet Labs flock of miniature satellites, show at least forty naval vessels, submarines, and aircraft in what some military strategist “described as an unusually large display of the Chinese military’s growing naval might,” said Reuters.

Up to forty naval vessels can be seen in a line formation, while submarines flank the aircraft carrier called Liaoning labeled below.

Jeffrey Lewis, the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), told Reuters: “It is an incredible picture. That is the big news to me. Confirmation that, yes, the carrier participated in the exercise.”

Liaoning, a Type 001 aircraft carrier, is the first aircraft carrier commissioned into the People’s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force, a branch of the People’s Liberation Army Navy.

Some military strategists believe that China could use the carrier group and its militarized islands to defend its maritime territorial and exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as well as claims in the East China (ECS) and the South China Sea (SCS).

Collin Koh, a security expert at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, told Reuters that the deployment of warships is “unusual for its size and scope.”

“Judging by the images, it does seem they are keen to show that elements of the South Sea Fleet are able to routinely join up with the carrier strike group from Dalian in the north,” he said.

“It does seem they want to show inter-fleet interoperability – something the (Chinese) navy has been quietly working on for some time.”

Koh further said the show of naval force was also accompanied by “destroyers, frigates and submarines” that would normally support a carrier group, the flotilla even included a “large oiler for re-supply as well as smaller corvettes and possibly fast attack catamarans.”

“While it highlights an extensive ability to deploy, we are still left to guess at China’s combat readiness,” Koh said.

There are still many unknowns surrounding the final destination and duration of the exercise. Nevertheless, Marine Traffic shows that the drill is being conducted in some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.

The drill comes amid increasing tensions in the South China Sea, with Vietnam, China, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan; which all have overlapping claims to the resource-rich waterway.

Claims on the South China Sea explained below:

What does this all mean?

For China to keep peace in the South China Sea, it requires Beijing to conduct continuous large-scale deterrence naval operations in the region. This will be the first of many such “deterrence” ops in which China will parade its massive fleet of warships throughout the heavily contested waters.

However, neither Beijing nor Washington want war in the region; at least for the foreseeable future. Still, China’s worst-case scenario, in which someone does take it on its dare, might have been realized with the new addition of President Trump’s new National Security Advisor John Bolton.

For that reason, the situation in the South China Sea will continue becoming tenser in the months ahead.

China launched the Petro-Yuan on Monday which will negatively affect the US Dollar.

Since it would be impossible to build a global New World Order without the world’s most populous nation, the globalists decided to use America’s markets, jobs and wealth as bait for luring the insular Chinese into the fold. And in return for joining the New World Order, China’s communist officials were offered the prestige and power of being the world’s new economic leaders.

This strategy was publicly admitted by globalist super-minion George Soros in a 2009 video interview with FT…

Starting at the 9:26 mark of the below video, George Soros says the following…

“I think this would be the time, because you really need to bring China into the creation of a new world order – financial world order. They are kind of reluctant members of the IMF. They play along, but they don’t make much of a contribution because it’s not their institution. Their share is not commeasurate – their voting rights are not commeasurate – to their weight. So I think you need a New World Order that China has to be part of the process of creating it, and they have to buy in. They have to own it the same way as I said the United States owns… the Washington consensus… the current order, and I think this would be a more stable one where you would have a coordinated policies.”

Here’s that video with globalist pig Soros ….

Interesting enough, James Corbett says,

“At the very top of this Bankster pyramid, the Chinese elite is connected directly in with the U.S. Western elite.”

Corbett has carefully documented the “8 Immortal Families” in his report on China and the New World Order which shows how the 8 Immortals are totally connected to Henry Kissinger and the Rockefeller-Rothschild banking elite. This is the way they will lead us into a New WORLD Order.

“The West is being engineered into a world system of governance and government that can only come about through the rise of the East. It’s been puppeteered from the very start. There is no doubt that China’s rise right now is something that has been long planned for and carefully engineered.”

Then we have a compelling article written by William Engdahl, who is a strategic risk consultant and lecturer and a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, “New Eastern Outlook”, he shows compelling evidence that the transfer of the geopolitical center of gravity to what he calls Eurasia is something the West will have to get used to. Engdahl gives an impressive account of “the present global political and economic situation in the context of China’s New Economic Silk Road as the One Belt, One Road project is often called.” Further more he states, “What I’ve seen in my many visits to China, and have studied about the entirety of this enormously impressive international infrastructure project convinces me that a Eurasian Century at this point is unstoppable.”

Engdahl writing for the Strategic Culture Foundation tells it like it is, the unpopular truth:

“The American Century has lasted a mere seven decades if we date from the end of the war. Its record has been one of dismal failure on balance. The industrial base of the United States, the predominant leading industrial nation and leading scientific innovator, today is a hollowed, rotted shell with once-booming cities like Detroit or Philadelphia or Los Angeles now burned-out ghettos of unemployed and homeless.

The Federal Debt of the United States, owing to the endless wars its Presidents engage in, as well as the fruitless bailouts of Wall Street banks and Government Sponsored Enterprises like Fannie Mae, is well over 103% of GDP at an astonishing $19.5 trillion, or more than $163,000 per taxpaying American and Washington is adding to the debt this year at near $600 billion. Countries like China and Russia are moving away from subsidizing that debt at a record pace.

*****

This is the sunset for the American Century, a poorly disguised imperial experiment in hubris and arrogance by a gaggle of boring old patriarchs like David Rockefeller and his friends on Wall Street and in the military industry. It is the starkest contrast to what is going on to the east, across all Eurasia today.”

This conspiracy against the good people of America has been well planned out. In reading further on in Engdahl’s article, he writes, “The Eurasian Century is the name I give to the economic emergence of the countries contiguous from China across Central Asia, Russia, Belarus, Iran and potentially Turkey. They are being integrally linked through the largest public infrastructure projects in modern history, in fact the most ambitious ever, largely concentrated on the 2013 initiative by Chinese President Xi Jinping called the One Belt, One Road initiative or OBOR”. You can read the full article here: http://asheepnomore.net/…/the-global-plot-to-take-down-ame…/

So with all that said, we all need to understand that the West IS Engineering its Own Downfall. And all this East vs. West conflict is just for show. They’re playing us all on their masonic, black and white chess board. There are no savior programs to make America great again because they’re all in on the take down of the America. BRICS is no savior program either because they’re all in on the game.

Remember …in order to gain global power and control, there can be NO super power, like America ….and what better way to take down that super power through currency to which will negatively affect every American economically (well, those in on the game will witness a great transfer of wealth …to them).

China is the world’s biggest crude consumer and buys most of its oil from Russia. However, most settlements are still in US dollars. The launch of the petro-yuan now allows Moscow and Beijing to use national currencies instead.

China and Russia are actively reducing dependence on the dollar in bilateral trade. In October 2017, Beijing launched a payment system for transactions in yuan and Russian rubles. This means that settlements for Russian oil deliveries to China, which have reached 60 million tons per year, can be done without using the dollar.

After Monday’s launch of the yuan-backed oil futures in Shanghai, there have been negotiation between Russia and China on mutual promotion of oil futures in national currencies, RIA Novosti reported. In 2016, the St. Petersburg exchange in Russia launched Urals oil futures in the Russian ruble, and support from China could prop up Russian crude futures.

China’s new oil benchmark had a hugely successful debut. On the first day of trading in Shanghai, 62,500 contracts with more than 62 million barrels of crude traded for a notional value of nearly 27 billion yuan ($4 billion), Zerohedge reported. Glencore, Trafigura, Freepoint Commodities and other huge oil-trading corporations took part.

Russia held its position as China’s largest crude oil supplier in February. Russia supplied 5.052 million tons, or 1.32 million barrels per day (bpd) last month, up 17.8 percent from a year earlier, according to Reuters, quoting the Chinese General Administration of Customs.

The increase in volume happened as a result of a second Sino-Russian oil pipeline, which began operations on January 1. It doubled China’s capacity to pump oil from the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) system. ESPO connects Russia and China with a direct pipeline.

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